Revelations
Well, tonight I did what I said I would. I went to the ALT.NET UserGroup tonight, with one Garry Stewart speaking, and while listening to these people converse about various .NET related items, I had somewhat of a revelation.…
Where Noobs Do Fear To Tread
One of my mate's mates is attending an ALT.Net Usergroup tomorrow night (details here if you are interested), and will be talking about coding .NET related things... WITHOUT gasp... the shiny comfort that is Visual Studio.Net. He then…
Elegant Stupidity
Whew... Its been a while. Life took a crazy turn for the worse since my previous entry, as my wedding with my fiance drew closer and closer we were thrown into what I call 'Wedding Overdrive'. But I digress, and…
Blindingly Obvious
You know what Im talking about don't you? When something isnt installed with a product that would seem (to the mere mortal at least) blindingly obvious... Im talking, of course, about the Express Edition of SQL Server 2008. Tonight I…
Multi-Monitor Nirvana
Im truly, truly looking forward to proper multi monitor support in the next version of Visual Studio. Quite a few developers these days are usually developing in multi screen environment, so its really nice to see MS take notice and…
Worse Than Death
Anecdotes are fun things arent they? Now, you might think the title of this post somewhat grim, but its actually an... ahem... 'adaptation' of one my favourite sites which specialises in these anecdotes, mainly in regards to I.T. My…
Consistency... What Consistency?
I think one of the hardest things in a support project is both ensuring consistency with your collegues when coding anything, not to mention consistency within an existing application itself. The problem is every developer has different ideas on which…
The Messiah of Debugging
You know what Im talking about… In Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft was kind enough to introduce Javascript Debugging. That’s right people! Gone are the days of the 5 million alert(‘your text here’) boxes to try and figure out…